Awards Quote by Victor Borge

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

— George Bernard Shaw

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

— Ernest Newman

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned…

— Lukas Foss

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

— Frank Sinatra Jr